# Detailing Questions **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/detailing-questions/191331 **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic **Created:** [July 23, 2007, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/detailing-questions/191331 "2007-07-23T12:21:03Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 8
### Author: ![jph102900](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jph102900/32/6049_2.png) [@jph102900](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jph102900) #### Post date: [July 23, 2007, 2:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/detailing-questions/191331/8 "2007-07-23T14:06:13Z")
> [@More Looney Toon Legislators at Work](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/more-looney-toon-legislators-at-work/31477/14): > > thanks for the compliments guys! I was pretty impressed myself, as was marks\_lude, the member on here that I did this for. > > We were pretty aggressive with his car. Usually wash the car, dry, clay bar the car, then wash it again, and dry. > > Then I use a 3m rubbing compound (usually fine cut if the car has good clear left, regular rubbing compound if it’s a super oxidized single stage which his was as it was painted once I believe). Either way his paint was pretty faded. > > Then I think we used a Meguires Paint cleaner which is just a finer cut. > > Add in some 3m Imperial Hand Glaze to fill some scratches. > > Top with 2 coats of mother’s carnuba wax (old school stuff in the metal tin) I think it has one of the higher carnuba percentages of the things you can buy at pep boys. > > Used a wool pad for the rubbing compound and polish. Cotton plush pad for hand glaze and regular cotton one to take off the wax. I usually end up spending at least 4 hours on a car, but I’m slow and my arm gets tired, even with an orbital buffer, lol. Sounds like the same process that I used on my accord. Luckily most of the accord was metal and the plastic parts actually were not too faded at the time. I traded that car in for 500 bucks at Rohrich when I bought my Mazda and then saw it a month later on sale for $2,750 at one of those POS dealerships on route 51 going into the city :bash: --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/detailing-questions/191331)._